Askren Hub States Pest Control Services, Inc. v. Zurich Insurance

How courts have described this case

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• holding that the insured's failure to give reasonable notice would not bar recovery under the policy unless the insurer suffered prejudice as a result of the delay
• providing that a delay of six months before notifying the insurer of an \occurrence\ constitutes unreasonable notice
• “We believe that Askren’s delay of six months before notifying Zurich of the ‘occurrence’ constitutes unreasonable notice.”
• “The presumption of prejudice essentially means that if the delay in giving the required notice is unreasonable, the injured party or the insured has the burden to produce evidence that prejudice did not actually occur in the particular situation.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).